This paper tries to highlight the literacy rate and relevant gender gap in the light of different categories of educational institutions in the district Murshidabad which is considered as one of the backward district in West Bengal if its Human Development Index rank is taken into consideration. Henceforth, educational institutions are grouped into separate three stage i.e. - I) Primary School, ii) Middle/High/Higher secondary School, and iii) College/ University/ Others. Various correlation coefficient methods have been applied to detect the correlation of literacy rate with gender gap across the blocks, subdivisions and municipalities. It has been examined that literacy rate in the district of Murshidabad has positive correlation with the number of different categories of educational institutions